The article analyzes representations about the Roma people in the Russian, Belorussian, and Ukrainian literatures. The images of Roma in the literature were often built on the ground of the existing stereotypes. Roma arrived to the territory of the Russian Empire in the second half of XVIII century. In the early XIX century, they were for the first time described by some writers, musicians, and painters. The author accumulated a great number of novels, stories and poems, that were written by Russian, Belorussian, and Ukrainian writers and describes Roma. There were analyzed the dynamic of Roma images’ creating in the different periods of time.